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Description
John Spear arrived in Whittier to work in 1946, but spent time here from 1926, as his uncle and grandmother lived here. He began working at a Post Office in Pennsylvania in 1936. He volunteered for the Navy, and spent a year and a half at Pearl Harbor, working in the post office there. He served as Assistant Superintendent of Mails at the Whittier Post Office, retiring in 1972. He discusses the change of street numbering system in Whittier, in 1966, from three-digit addresses with directionals to five-digit addresses without directionals, for the purpose of consistency with the Los Angeles County numbering system.
Type
sound
Format
Master Audio cassette
Form/Genre
Oral histories
Extent
1 Tape of 1 01:12:20
Identifier
cawhm_000079
Subject
United States Postal Service Street addresses
Time Period
1926/1991
Place
Whittier (Calif.)
Provenance
Whittier Museum California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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